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September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
...demonstrating the kinetic impactor technology for planetary defence, but there is much more to be done to fully understand the Didymos system and to evaluate the DART impact. The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft therefore makes... (APL) in Laurel, MD, USA. She received an undergraduate degree in physics at Rice University and a PhD in planetary science at the University of Arizona. She has been a member of five field teams with the Antarctic...
June 2017
Space economics - industry trends and space investing
... Impact of space policy In addition to capital sources, space policy can have a large impact on industry dynamics and the economics of space In addition to capital sources, space policy can have a large impact on industry dynamics and the economics of space.... angel capital and continuing on the capital lifecycle fly wheel. Space policy can also be helpful in terms of protecting intellectual and property rights. For example, Planetary Resources, a...
November 2019
UAE meteor and debris monitoring network
... and space debris is an essential aspect of the field of space and astronomy today both for scientific importance and for planetary defence Monitoring meteors is an essential aspect in the field of space and astronomy... a Research Assistant at the Meteorites Center in the Research Laboratories and Observatory department at Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences and Technology. She received a BSc degree in industrial engineering & engineering...
February 2019
The Space Elevator – an alternative path to space?
...down to the ground in Earth’s gravity field In principle a space elevator can be built with known tether materials if the taper factor of the tether is large enough. However, a large taper ..., Huntsville, 2000. 15 J. Pearson, J. Carroll, E. Levin and J. Oldson, “ElectroDynamic Debris Eliminator (EDDE): Design, Operation, and Ground Support,” in Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference, Maui, HI, 2010. 16 B. M. Wiegmann,...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
..., USA, has worked on all four of NASA’s Great Observatories - Hubble, Compton, Chandra and Spitzer – which gives him a fairly unique perspective on space science. ROOM’s US editor, Amanda Miller, delves into his engineering background...’s primordial “soup”. Combining data from Deep Impact with Spitzer observations, astronomers began to identify the ingredients that eventually produced planets, comets and other bodies in our solar system. What...
February 2021
Cyber and Space – the role of the cyber-range
..., as it is possible to build entire virtual architectures that emulate both space and non-space assets. Any organisation can buy or access a commercial cyber-range solution that...space and cybersecurity regime that is flexible and multilateral. The space community has always been good at promoting acceptable ‘behavioural norms’. Numerous countries and agencies already work together on space projects and solutions - and cybersecurity in space...
March 2021
Space weather and risk mitigation
...awareness of space hazards was limited to countries with operational space science missions, but the growing volume and variety of infrastructure interconnections has changed the status of space weather among the space community, ...which have local and regional patterns and develop relatively slowly, GMDs can be experienced on a planetary scale within a few minutes; GMDs simultaneously affect power grids - their primary avenue of impact - over ...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
...the initial risks of asteroid mining come close to swallowing the benefits. While both Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries have been very tight-lipped about their costs, the list of big name ... & researcher in Brisbane, Australia, who covers topics relating to science, economics, culture and law. She has degrees in law and physics and has written for magazines, radio and broadcast documentaries. She was recently the ‘in-house’ writer...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... behaviour and its consequences in outer space according to political and social concepts, and not simply recounting the partisan politics of a legislature that factors space into policy-making. A space policy of any kind is political. Recognising the impacts of space on people, societies and polities, good and bad...
